My dude, I’ll let you in on a super shitty secret. The roles are reversed very often, and women are equally as stuck as you... it happens a lot. That’s why the past few years, it’s been a huge deal that women are speaking out.

Every single woman I know has several stories like the one you told us. Many have worse ones (I once pretended to be my friend’s boyfriend because a guy wouldn’t leave her alone... he didn’t care that I pretended to be with her, he followed us to two subsequent bars. We took an Uber away from that part of town and he was still trying to come chat with her).

I’m not minimizing what you’re telling us. What you dealt with sounds fucking awful. I’m sorry you felt stuck in that situation. I’m just saying - it happens a ton to women.